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Boxfish vs Codfish - What's the difference?

boxfish | codfish |

As nouns the difference between boxfish and codfish

is that boxfish is any of the family ostraciidae of squared, bony fish, closely related to the pufferfish and filefish while codfish is (countable) a cod (the fish ).

boxfish

English

(wikipedia boxfish) (Ostraciidae) (Ostraciidae)

Noun

(en-noun)
  • Any of the family Ostraciidae of squared, bony fish, closely related to the pufferfish and filefish.

    • codfish

    English

    Noun

  • (countable) A cod (the fish ).
  • (uncountable) The flesh of the cod as food.